Read John 10-12
John 11:22 says, "But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee." Martha at first said Lazarus wouldn’t have died if Jesus had been there to prevent it. Then when Jesus said Lazarus would be raised from the dead, she said she knew it would happen like with all others, in the last day. She was trying to understand her brother’s death in the ways she knew.
She knew Jesus could heal sicknesses and about the final days. She knew Jesus could do anything He wanted to do, but it sounded like she was afraid to hope that Jesus would chooses to raise Lazarus from the dead that day.
When things we pray for don’t happen right away or happen the way we think they should have, we try to understand why. Our faith is built up when we see answers to our prayers and we don’t want to lose faith just because things aren’t going as we’d hoped. God doesn’t need for us to make excuses for Him. All He wants from us is to keep believing.
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